Salmon Fishing USA

A nationwide decline in trout fishing participation, documented in a just-released survey from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, could impact the future of state-run trout stocking programs.

Nick P. Andrew Jr. and William C. Andrew Ohogamiut Traditional Council October 06, 2009 at 8:04AM AKST The Ohogamiut Traditional Council (OTC) as a federally recognized Alaskan Native tribal government opposes the citation issued on Jason Isaac for the protest fishing in late June. On Sept. 30, 2009, two wildlife enforcement officers from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service flew into Marshall three months after the “Marshall Protest” occurred and ticketed Isaac, who serves as the

A new issue of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s fisheries magazine, Eddies, is online at www.fws.gov/eddies . In this issue of Eddies, read the story behind how anglers pay for fisheries conservation via the “Sport Fish Restoration Program.” All you ever wanted to know about the largest cutthroat trout in the West – the Lahontan cutthroat trout – is in “American Fishes.” And you’ll want to read “No Trout Left Behind,” one man’s muse on the Western Native Trout Initiative and the future

So far only about 12,000 fall-run Chinook salmon have swum from the Sacramento River up Battle Creek - on which Coleman National Fish Hatchery sits near Anderson - said Jim Smith, a project leader for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Red Bluff.